Glenshiel (world)
Glenshiel/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 1912) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | DA86563-7
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | F6 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 2 |
Glenshiel is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich world with a growing agro-economy, but still lacks an adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.
- As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
- It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
- This world has promising economic future although it needs to recruit a larger labor force in order to achieve the desired prosperity.
- This die back world was once settled and developed, but the inhabitants have either died off or left leaving behind the ruins and remnants of their civilization.
- It is a Client State of the Principality of Caledon located in the Caledon Subsector of the Reaver's Deep Sector.
- This world contains a xeno-archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Saie precursor race.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
Glenshiel is a backwater world, beyond the bounds of the Principality of Caledon but still heavily under the influence of Caledon (Reaver's Deep 1815). It is a Protectorate, enjoying favorable trade relations and naval support from the Principality, but without representation in the House of Delegates or the Grand Senate.
- Glenshiel is also noted as the site of Anekthor, an imposing, triple-peaked mountain on the Jura plateau. Shrouded in mystery, it has never been successfully climbed, and is reputed home of the strange animals known as "Windstalkers" - which defy the world's known biology.
- This system is part of the Claverse Cluster.
Monostellar System[edit]
Glenshiel Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Sassenach's Eye F6 V
Primary Main Sequence 1.25 6280 - 6350 2.18366 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0063 0.1226 1.36 - 2.36 0.63 6.3 Orbit # * 0 4 2 6
System Data[edit]
Primary: Sassenach's Eye, spectral class F6V. ICN S4G0302F6V. Mass 1.25 standard. Stellar diameter 1.3 standard. Luminosity 3.04 standard.
Planetary System: Twelve major bodies. One inhabited world (Glenshiel, VI). Two gas giants (XI and XII). No planetoid belts.
Mainworld Data[edit]
Planet VI, Glenshiel
- Mean orbital radius: 261.8 million kilometers (1.75 AU)
- Period, 756.3 days
- No satellites
- Diameter: 17,174 kilometers
- Density: 1.0 standard
- Mass: 1.95 standard
- Mean surface gravity: 1.25 G
- Rotation period: 29 hours, 48 minutes, 56 seconds
- Axial inclination: 2°41'14.0"
- Albedo: .29.
- Surface atmospheric pressure: 2.4 atm.
- Composition: Standard oxygen-nitrogen mix, breathable by humans without artificial assistance.
- Hydrographic percentage: 82%; composition, water and frozen water-ice.
- Mean surface temperature: 32° C.
Mainworld Topography and Geography[edit]
- Darkdoom Sea
- Haven continent (west)
- Jura Plateau
- Newcost continent (east, pole-pole)
- Norrst continent (north)
- Northfar Sea
- Rugglend continent (south)
Point of Interest: Crash Jura[edit]
The world is famous in scientific circles as the location of an important archaeological find, Crash Jura.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
The six limbs and twin forked tails of native animals are distinctive.
- Bladefish: Edible aquatic animals
- Cragdevil: A mountain-dwelling omnivore
- Icestinger: An odd, ice-dwelling lifeform with a motile juvenile stage and a largely stationary adult phase.
- Mountiger: A large, solitary carnivore of the plateaus
- Prowlster: A forest-dweller, a stalking hunter
- Thunderunner: A large herbivore of the plateaus
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Glenshiel has been settled for only 250 years, since Sir James Armstrong of Caledon founded the settlement now known as Armstrong's Landing.
- Sir James, who embraced the ideals of a "back-to-nature" movement which at that time enjoyed quite a bit of popularity on Caledon, founded the Glenshiel settlement as a wilderness retreat for those who wished to escape from the frantic pace of modern life. After his death, however, the colony slowly began to fall away from his original ideals.
- It is now an agricultural community, and Ben Laren, the smaller of two cities on the world, has become a fishing town where Bladefish from the Northfar Sea are caught and exported; they are popular as a delicacy in the Principality and in the Imperial territories to trailing.
References[edit]
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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
- J. Andrew Keith. Ascent to Anekthor (Gamelords, 1984), 11.
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11,50. (dot map)
- Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 22.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com